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Skinwalkers

Tony Hillerman · 301 pages

Loaded with e-book extras (not available in the print edition), including Tony Hillerman's running commentary on his work, his series heroes Leaphorn and Chee, and a special profile of the Navajo nation.Three shotgun blasts in a trailer bring Officer Chee and Lt. Leaphorn together for the first time in an investigation of ritual, witchcraft, and blood.Three shotgun blasts explode into the trailer

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Rattlesnake Crossing

J.A. Jance · 396 pages

Sheriff Joanna Brady is the law in Cochise County, and she will never allow her personal trials to interfere with the job she was elected to do -- especially now that death has invaded Bisbee, Arizona, and has shattered the small desert town's fragile peace. A gun dealer has died violently, and his stock of high-powered weapons has been cleaned out. Suspicion falls upon rancher Alton Hosfield, an

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Shutter

Ramona Emerson · 296 pages

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Street Dreams

Faye Kellerman · 466 pages

Detective Peter Decker teams up with his wife and daughter to solve a crime rooted in both the past and present. While on routine patrol, LAPD Officer Cindy Decker rescues a newborn abandoned in an alley dumpster. But she can't call it a night until she sees the infant safe in a hospital, cared for by a professional — in this case a male nurse with soulful eyes and lots of charm. Now the hun

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Loyalty in Death

J.D. Robb · 358 pages

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Blackening Song

Aimee Thurlo, David Thurlo · 384 pages

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Eye of the Wolf

Margaret Coel · 320 pages

In this latest Wind River Reservation mystery, a psychopathic killer has brutally murdered three Shoshones and posed their bodies on a historic battlefield, intent on provoking a civil war between the reservation's Arapaho and Shoshone, or is he gunning after Father O'Malley?

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The Round House

Louise Erdrich · 352 pages

A young man is upended after a violent attack on his mother, which leaves his family in turmoil. Well-written page turner that is hard to put down!

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Diamond Dove

Adrian Hyland · 322 pages

Emily Tempest has been away from the outback for a long time - uni, travel, dead-end jobs... finding trouble all over the world. Now she's back at Moonlight Downs, the community where she grew up, half in the Aboriginal world, half in the white. And true to form, there's trouble. Within hours of her arrival an old friend is brutally murdered and mutilated and an old enemy is the only suspect... un

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Bad Blood

Dana Stabenow · 276 pages

"New York Times bestselling author Dana Stabenow's latest finds Kate Shugak entangled in a bitter tribal rivalry and murder One hundred years of bad blood between the villages of Kushtaka and Kuskulana come to a boil when the body of a young Kushtaka ne'er-do-well is found wedged in a fish wheel. Sergeant Jim Chopin's prime suspect is a Kuskulana man who is already in trouble in both villages for

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Memory in Death

J.D. Robb, Nora Roberts · 337 pages

A Eve Dallas Investigation In Death New York Lieutenant Eve Dallas has walking a tightrope between her professional duties and her private demons. Eve Dallas is one tough cop. She's got no problem dealing with a holiday reveler in a red suit who plunges thirty-seven stories and gives new meaning to the term "sidewalk Santa." But when she gets back to the station and Trudy Lombard shows up, i

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Garden of Lamentations

Deborah Crombie · 414 pages

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Hard Row

Margaret Maron · 320 pages

As Judge Deborah Knott presides over a case involving a barroom brawl, it becomes clear that deep resentments over race, class, and illegal immigration are simmering just below the surface in the countryside. An early spring sun has begun to shine like a blessing on the fertile fields of North Carolina , but along with the seeds sprouting in the thawing soil, violence is growing as well. Mutilate

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Mercy Falls

William Kent Krueger · 368 pages

In this “smart and satisfying” (Booklist) mystery, charismatic Cork O’Connor finds himself stalked by an unknown assailant bent on putting a bullet through his heart as he faces his most dangerous case yet. Back in the saddle as sheriff of Tamarack County, Cork O’Connor is lured to the nearby Ojibwe reservation on what appears to be a routine call—only to become the target of sniper fire. Soon

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Hermit's Peak

Michael McGarrity · 315 pages

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The Unquiet Dead

Ausma Zehanat Khan · 360 pages

"Detective Esa Khattak is in the midst of his evening prayers when he receives a phone call asking that he and his partner, Detective Rachel Getty, look into the death of a local man who has fallen off a cliff. At first Christopher Drayton's death--which looks like an accident--doesn't seem to warrant a police investigation, especially not from Khattak and Rachel's team, which handles minority-sen

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The Moth Catcher

Ann Cleeves · 400 pages

"Life seems perfect in Valley Farm, a quiet community in Northumberland. Then a shocking discovery shatters the silence. The owners of a big country house have employed a house-sitter to look after the place while they're away. But he is found dead by the side of the lane into the valley. DI Vera Stanhope arrives on the scene with her detectives Holly and Joe. When they look round the attic of the

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Murder in All Honour

Anne Cleeland · 259 pages

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Stolen in Death

J. D. Robb

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Payment in Blood

Elizabeth George · 374 pages

Detective Thomas Lynley and his partner are called in to investigate the murder of playwright Joy Sinclair at an isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands.

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A Fatal Grace

Louise Penny · 320 pages

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The Fifth Elephant

Terry Pratchett · 460 pages

Everyone knows that the world is flat, and supported on the backs of four elephants. But weren't there supposed to be five? Indeed there were. So where is it?...When duty calls. Commander Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork constabulary answers. Even when he doesn't want to. He's been "invited" to attend a royal function as both detective and diplomat. The one role he relishes; the other requires, well, rub

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One Last Breath

Stephen Booth · 560 pages

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Finding Nouf

Zoe Ferraris · 312 pages

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